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			<h1>The most horrid type of second-hand store</h1>
			<p>Day 00489: Friday, 2016 July 08</p>
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	Myuu has just released a <a href="https://myuu.bandcamp.com/album/ballad-collection">new album</a>, though at the moment, I&apos;m in no position to take a good look at it.
	Once we have an Internet connection at home and I have time, I&apos;ll look into this probably-beautiful album from a talented piano player.
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	ALCATEL ONETOUCH Elevate was still up this morning, so I connected and installed the <a href="apt:pinentry-qt4">Pinentry interface</a> that I needed along with the rest of the software for my mother.
	My website compilation script was silently creating blank signatures though, so I poked around in <a href="file:///home/yst/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf"><abbr title="GNU Privacy Guard">GnuPG</abbr>&apos;s gonfiguration file</a>.
	I ended up fixing it by changing the line &quot;pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-qt&quot; to &quot;pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-qt4&quot;.
	However, pinentry is not blocking password pasting! What a pain.
	In addition to the software that I thought that I needed yesterday, I also forgot that I need <a href="apt:socat">socat</a> for use with <abbr title="Secure Shell">SSH</abbr>; I use it to help get <abbr title="Secure Shell">SSH</abbr> to use <abbr title="The Onion Router">Tor</abbr> as a proxy.
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	While I was out dumping trash, I noticed a grease bin for vegetable oil recycling.
	From the looks of it, that oil is given to the the company running the buses in the area.
	I think that the buses are running on biodiesel!
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	My mother received confirmation that they didn&apos;t get the job from the other day&apos;s interview, so we headed over to their sibling&apos;s place to borrow their computer and look for a job.
	My mother quickly got another interview lined up in Gladstone, though this interview is a bit different than most.
	A small group of competing interviewees will be interviewed together in a group.
	I haven&apos;t heard of interviews like these before.
	I checked in on <a href="apt:minetest">Minetest</a> while we were there, and it seems that they&apos;ve fixed the <abbr title="trinitrotoluene">TNT</abbr> issue.
	It used to be that <abbr title="trinitrotoluene">TNT</abbr> explosions would ignore the node protection <abbr title="application programming interface">API</abbr>, making <abbr title="trinitrotoluene">TNT</abbr> an unstoppable tool of destruction.
	When I reported the problem before, they insisted that it was a feature, not a bug, but it looks like someone has managed to convince them otherwise.
	Maybe there&apos;s hope for Minetest&apos;s default subgame after all.
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	Our mother took Cyrus, Vanessa, and I to an awful second hand store that they love.
	The deal with this place is that they charge you not by the item, but by the total weight of your purchases.
	This is all fine and dandy, but they also charge a higher price per pound if you are buying less than twenty-five pounds of their junk.
	Every time that we visit one of these stores, we end up stuck in there for over an hour while our mother sifts through everything trying to hit that twenty-five pound mark.
	In the process, we end up with far more junk than we actually need, too.
	I hate this kind of manipulative sales tactic on the store&apos;s part.
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	Our mother has been a bit unreasonable lately.
	They&apos;re angry that Cyrus is going with Vanessa to see our father.
	Of course Cyrus is going to want to see our father! What child wouldn&apos;t? It also turns out our mother laughed at Alyssa when Alyssa asked our mother to turn off their mobile game sound so Alyssa could sleep.
	Our mother then waited about two minutes before actually turning it off.
	We are guests in Alyssa&apos;s home, our mother has been sleeping in Alyssa&apos;s bedroom with them, and our mother is needlessly making it difficult for Alyssa to sleep.
	This isn&apos;t acceptable.
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